HEFLO allows you to force the execution of intermediate and boundary events of timer and conditional type during your tests. This gives you the ability to test your process without having to wait for configured timeouts or conditions. Go to the process editor and choose the process you want to […]
How to use timer boundary events
Business processes often remain pending at a specific task under someone’s responsibility. This may delay the process to be finished on its due time. To avoid this scenario and to add more intelligence to the process, you can have a process with an automatically escalated activity using a timer boundary […]
How to start a process by timer
You can have a process automatically initiated in differents opening cycles using the HEFLO timer element. Step 1 – Include a timer initiator Before adding the initiator make sure that the process has the automation feature enabled. So, go to the properties tab and activate the switch “Automated Process”. To instantiate […]
Tutorial: Using BPMN timer events to start business processes
How many times have you missed a deadline because you didn’t start a task or process on time? In BPMN it’s possible to start processes through a timer and in this article we will show how to do this on HEFLO. The timer initiator represents when the process will be […]
Maximum number of executions of an event
You can give a process analyst or process editor user the ability to control the number of automatically triggered instance executions. It is now mandatory to set the maximum number of executions when configuring a trigger boundary event. This new functionality is available for events of type: timer or condition […]
BPMN Events
An event is something that “happens” during the course of a process. These events affect the flow of the process and usually have a cause or impact. Starting or ending a process, receiving a message from another process, sending a document … all can be considered Events. Events have a […]
How to perform process automation tests
You can use the test mode to verify that your flow is correct before performing the automation publishing. When a work item executes in this mode, it follows a numbering sequence independent of production data. In addition, it will have no impact on key performance indicators or on the interface […]
How to automate a business process
Automating a business process means making it executable. This means that people that take part on it will have tools that will guarantee its correct execution, productivity, and transparency. These are requirements to promote business process improvement. In this tutorial, we are going to introduce the most important aspects of automating […]